app activation

  1. Making the app single-instanced (Part 3)

    Single-instanced apps only allow one instance of the app running at a time. WinUI apps are multi-instanced by default. They allow you to launch multiple instances of the same app at one time, which we call multiple instances. However, you may implement single-instancing based on the use case of...
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  2. Identity, Registration and Activation of Non-packaged Win32 Apps

    Many new and sought-after Windows APIs and features such as BackgroundTasks, Notifications, LiveTiles, Share and more, are either not available or not easily callable from non-packaged Win32 applications. This is due to the programming model for UWP APIs that integrate with the system and have a...
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  3. How to Restart your App Programmatically

    For some apps (especially games) it is not uncommon for the app to get into a state where it needs to restart – perhaps after a license update, after installing downloadable content, its caches have become corrupt or unwieldy, or for any other reason where the app needs to refresh state from...
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  4. Adding Cortana to your UWP App with Visual Studio 2015

    With Visual Studio 2015 now available and today being the start of the Windows 10 release wave and Cortana being just so cool, this post from Arun Kumar Surya Prakash is a perfect for today... Link Removed Microsoft has introduced Cortana in 2014 Build Event. With just one year now Cortana...
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